Alerting

Alert setup

amirarsalan
Explorer

Hi all!
Need some help to setup an alert. I have created a alert but my issue is that the alert trigger all the time on the same results. My search is like this index="" sourcetype="" Something went wrong when parsing a offer for campaign, result is falsy | dedup campaign.id

I only want once alert per campaign but now i get same alerts on same campaigns.

My setup is:
Earliest: -10m
Cron Expression: */5 * * * *
Trigger: Once
Throttle: 10 minutes

Someone who can help with this?

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amirarsalan
Explorer

Hi @gcusello
Here is my code search

index="" sourcetype="" Something went wrong when parsing a offer for campaign, result is falsy | dedup campaign.id

I can change the time. Anyway it stil gives me same alerts

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @amirarsalan,
you have a ime period of 10 minutes and a frequency schedule of 5 minutes,this means that you use the same data two times in your alerts, could you reduce the time period or enlarge the frequency?
What's your trigger condition: could you share your search using Code Sample button (otherwise I cannot read your code)?

Ciao.
Giuseppe

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @amirarsalan,
you Use case requires that the alert is triggered when you have results to the search or when the result is higher that a threeshold?

Ciao.
Giuseppe

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amirarsalan
Explorer

Hi @gcusello
Yes that's correct. But the problem here is that I get same results on my search. So when the alert run the search I got the same results and then I receive the same alert after 10 minutes etc. I want alerts when I have new errors on new campaigns. So I want to receive 1 alert per campaign.id error. Now I get spammed of same alert every 10 minutes

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @amirarsalan,
you could write the result of the search (the Campaigns) in a lookup (using outputlookup command) or (better) in a summary index (using collect comand) and exclude them from your search.

Ciao.
Giuseppe

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